Prologue, Intro to Part One, & Ch. 1-(First Peoples) sections: Out of Africa & The Ways We Were
Ways of the World Prologue- Historians have discovered the human journey. The human journey is a timescale of 13.7 billion years. Big history is a term that means "a story of the human journey in a larger framework of cosmic and planetary history" (Strayer and Nelson, p. lvi). The universe began from eruption and produced matter, energy, gravity, electromagnetism, and strong/weak forces. The planet's history started from the appearance of the solar system. Human species consists of 5 phases, paleolithic, neolithic, ancient, classical, and modern. Change, Comparison, and Connection are the "big c's" of world history. Intro to Part One- Over time, the human journey has changed. History has gone through many phases that consists of development of skills, traditions, etc. Different species developed creating population. Farming and herding was a new technology to 7.2 billion people of the world....